Archive for September, 2013

SOURCE: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com Ari Folman’s trippy Hollywood satire goes up against animated features from Italy and France. Ari Folman’s The Congress, a mostly-animated satire on Hollywood and modern technology starring Robin Wright is one of the three titles nominated this year in the European animated feature film category for the 2013 European Film Awards. The other […]

SOURCE: http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org The European Film Academy proudly announces the three nominations in the category EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2013. A committee consisting of EFA Board Members Bruno Chatelin, producer (France) and Marek Rozenbaum, producer (Israel), as well as producer Manuel Cristóbal (Spain) and the journalists Daniel Couvreur (Belgium) and Lisa Nesselson (France), all three of […]

SOURCE: http://cineuropa.org 27/09/2013 – The first fiction feature of Luxembourg shorts and documentary director started shooting this week. By Boyd van Hoeij The feature fiction debut of 33-year-old Luxembourg director Jacques Molitor (photo) started shooting in the Grand Duchy on Thursday. The project is called Mammejong and looks at the complex relationship of a 19-year-old […]

SOURCE: http://www.slate.com The biopic is a mostly benighted genre. One of the ways to escape the category’s pitfalls is to focus on a specific period in a famous person’s life, rather than attempting to present the whole sweep from birth to death. Think Lincoln, for instance. But this strategy alone is not enough: You need […]

SOURDE: http://delano.lu The British and Irish Film Season gets under way this week with an excitingly eclectic programme of new films from the isles. This year’s programme features a slew of new films from established directors and from emerging new talent. For instance, this week there is a chance to see the long-awaited Neil Jordan […]